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About Lafayette courier. (Lafayette, Or.) 1866-1??? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1868)
s f * 1UE WÏEKLÏCOIBIER being the expression of the w. joa.tiDx, BDITOR' power of the State—tho office« and not officers constitute the government, the ol but bolding the power performing the TUESDAY AUGUST, 4 ties and exerasing tbe functions of the fice, which powers functions and duties Fon P resident . prescribed by tew, it follows that ever; of an officer, not authorised by law. personal and not an offioial act, and he, OF NEW YORK. not the State, is responsible* t. j í . |i ' ! Horatio isundentood in this i Seymour. F or V ici P resident , > • •’ ' I Francis P. Blair, OF MISSOURI. j We do npt objnet to the 4’1 east side havii having a Railroad, but we should be pleased to have them in whatever they did, let other’s property, name and fran ►i st chisees alone, and employ whites to d: do their labor. ' I OC. R. R,—We take the greatest pleasure in calling attention to the^ adver. tisement of the Oregon Central Railroad Company, whioh in f to-day’s ----- appears ___ _j H erald . Wp ire reminded by it of the It is then established beyond cavil days when wUn tihe the Illinois Central was in no wben-tho rebellion,—tbe great rigi more advanced stage than the Oregon committee—the organised mob—the pi Central is now, and when it was strug that was attempting to form a new gHng gling up, aga against the sneers of sceptics, to make the empire we now see along its meat over that dietr»ot was put down^ linej and wa wq confidently believe, and pre law remained in st^ntu quo ante 1 as there; tbe breath dict, that here, at ’ fierce * and the people had nothing to do but to of the “iron horse” will sear saar the ’ cheeks cl ect officers under the law,, as it existed of the doubters before their tfieir snail-like pace or to tbe so called secession—the ▼fr can enable them to blear clear tbe tract. Let resignation of officers under our States, 1 all who desire the prosperity of Oregon spreadljthii ne ’ to the world 1 Scatter it hews their assumption of offices under 1 the through all th< he 8ectioU8*from whence em- regime they were attempting to igrantf can be drawn—in the south, and ate—exoept so far as the same may west, and east—and next spring will wit been changed by constitutional « ness train after train of sterling farmers pouring into the Willamette Valley. Let and be States in the union. it be known that railroads are certainly Being no officers there to call the being and the “apen sesme” to together at the polls, Mr. Johnson sent pro population, prosperity ahd wealth, has been visional Governors, as they were found by Qfegon. Think what Illinois make that recommend, nor did he was—see what she is, and know that the same career «forcer awaits our, own State, frem them legal authority, but tbe election! » people, in pursuance thereof was of binding 1 the auspicious beginning of 1868. Tho act of an officer, therefore, could secede a State, nor destroy it, except act were authorized by law. w IÏI T he E ast Sma R ailroad ,4-Wo regret te none of the curves are so sharp as are enterpri has been some- frequently met with cTWlPeW prin tetetobdfil ed of . ft is jeporped cipal roads in theqSastenn States. The ny ca € pay their labor- sharpest curve pf tne line thus far surrey quite a number KY. iff-m coo *c<l bd, is ¡2 degs. ascent ave^it^ - < The ___ .._ from the - in 4 X--»-- Work/i • i g the corps of en- is not greater at fineerWenga; >g«win itial point to the summit suflsimt h nobgreator -L „ t ie road. We than eighty feet per mile. The understand t this uls surveying surveying party «ny place ] ■ party has has not not >f been at work for nearly two weeks. Io ebb- of completing the first five miles of c cost jMMHHHHHI grading-to the tho summit-judging from what experience has already been had,,will to A0“ on II bo about »16,000. This is « muuh les, sum than most penoa. would eainwte tiioonpiny WMM J*, ...rn th» oenoas estimate u. after looking at tbe work done. The ear- j • Ol .England," but th£ ihi. rimo veying party, under Mr. John Brazee, is they were unfortunately on of money «nd engaged in making the line and grades1 that If they would all go to tork a/ai‘n *he down the western slope of the mquntains. wou Id aldvanve them five dollars a- From the bummit westward, the grading °fu^®’and thebalano^ orr will be «.mewhat heavy for a mile .nd H-fe^Ce^¿e m - &£! then there is ho further or greater trouble of Engiaoj, is 90, the Ralt sid^a(j It really seems certainly be buiit.— Commercial. than on a level plain. FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, that the company has worked already 1 1 ff. 8 F. CHADWICK, of Douglas County * A through the moat dificult part of the first ,.v A CARD. tí JOHN BURNETT, of Benton County. , twenty miles and that in a short time, it S alem .* July 14,18 will have only plain sailing, so far as the JAS. H. SLER, of Union County, To the U nionist :—In your d Mr garding is concerned. Orcyoniau. issue of this date, I notice several com 1 .__ ... ■ A . , s tl ’ ' . "1 • munieations from sundry persons on iiil- 4 i ■ ' ■ ■ r munications Eail- ‘ ÏH1 DRMOCRATÎC PLATTÛRM e. Ir - the Status ef the States. ! î road matters, and which, as you state, ■ z have been published by request. In Wkp ' the , The Saat-Sido Railroad. has communication of J. W. P. Huntington The Democratic platform, in fall, As was promised we this evening pub i to James j„„ W. Nesmith, I : _' am ■ heralded reached us, but too late for this issue. The lish the results of the close observation pf forth as having urgently requested Mr. Mr. synopsis which we have heretofore published Mr. W. W. Skinner, an old Railroad H. to accompany the party. . wee the best party platform we had ever man, progress made toward the . con ■ of the he pr _ Hunting Now, I desire to say that Mr. Hunting-; seen, but the full platform makes it wonder struction of the Eaat-side East-side Railroad, and ton is very much mistaken - in his tnao.. which are minutely and carefully written I never requested or advised Mr. Hun fully better. It is like a stupendous struc ’ifc . ' "L. down by him. The interest taken by the I tington, or any ... other persun to visit Mr. ture of speculative masonry, each parts reader in its perusal is sufficient guarantee Nesmith on business connected with rail massive thing of purity and beauty, and the to us for the space it occupies for its pub roads, or for any other purpose. I was not ’ Whole fitted together as if by the band of the lication — 4 advisod, nor consulted in aoy shape, Way Supreme Architect of the universe. It will The gracing from East Por eland is very or manner concerning the visit. In fict, light, the embankments and outs are I never knew that Mr. Huntington Bad f’ prove, we trust, the pillar of cloud by day i • ’’’j — Mertdd.! jr about.the same, from one to two and a formed one of the party, until advised bj and tire by thakwill leave the captive effeot, and but for the selfish and usurpa- »y night, tbatwill communication. T he W est S ide RaiLBoAD.-^It is half feet. There are employed three men his owa communioation. R bind of Americans, _______ from the thraldom of tions’acts of the rads, the United States * tbe Saw Mill, one in tue Blacksmith in give .’IH !* perhaps due to the pubiio Inasmuch as the other correspondence 4 pubii that we gi ye congressional usurpation, to the happy land would now ba in peace and prosperity, and them from time to timl such information, ¿hop, and five at work building a new car has been made public by request, I hope ili r. of Constitutional liberty and law; and in 1 the beautiful machinery provided!:by the the beautiful machinery providi as we have concerning i < the progress of an shop. They are sawing lumber for a you will do me. the justice to correct' the* citizen at present. The company have this connection, may we not say, that An Constitution and completed by 01 our fathers enterprise in which they have a deep in enough lumber sawed for six cars, four statement therein made, by published N this note. drew Johnson is the Moses that has afficted terest, though we may ’have to do it at do- |t woo Id be ia the most perfect running Yours respectfully, 1 the risk of b ing thought tedious. We freight and two passengers care are in the Egytain mongrels with many plagues, & process of construction ; they also have a and «1 am a citizen of tbe United T. McF. P atton *. have often, therefore, made mention of and has lead the people of God out of the $ the work done or to be done on the two sort of an Upholster shop io operation.— a CARD. land of Egypt and that Seymour, like Josh could be beard with as much pride, The Car shop is about 140 feet long. — lines of railroad now iw in course of being I read Mr. T. McF. Patton's card 10 ua. of old, will take the chosen people and the South, as it was ever uttered graded, and may oflep So so in the future. » * There ia on the ground four sets of car the Unionist of the 16tb inst. ' i Ü t * plant their standard in the happy Canaan broke of the Potomac. We visited the west side line yesterday, trucks, that is, wheels and axles, eighteen It is alike false in general and false, ii> land of freedom, peace and ptosperi:y. ¡j going over nearly all of the route thus far ;in number, enough for four and a half detail. It is false in spirit and false iu The radical party, assumed that graded and a consideruble distance along oars; they are all old wheels and not of letter. Since the promulgation of the immortal States bad seceded, formed new gov It 7 Is throughout an utter fiâse ^4 I rhere any work w the survey, beyond where has the same pattern. There are some cross hood. y f Declaration of Independence, no declaration •nd that the general 'government1 ties ready. The grading between Mil jis yet. The grading, >jj gradi ng, [pm- been done .as Patton met me in front of Meyer’s store | of principles bas been penned that has caus oeeding from the initial point wn i ere waukie and Portland will not cost as them in arms and crushed them out much as the sixty feet cut on the West on the morning of the day \ alluded ed the public heart to throb with such true to a ground was broken, is coo neoted He then and there urged.that I should □Id go I istencs, and thus left that district of point nearly two mi|c$ south and wil: side road. Grading between these two to Nesmith's, with Messrs. Flint, Elliot emotions of joy, as the platform unanimous- •[ El re captured territory, is as false as Joints is not finished, where grading is make need but little further preparation to 1 y adopted by the National Democratic Con and others. I bad been previously re- of secession, fot/upon the right of it ready for the ties, ties. • iboat two mili a one il is only about eleven or twelve feet vention at New York. Bold and manly, it quested to do so; by persons, ' ... w — other from the starting point there is a deep- wide, and woj ditches have been made to , domestic -—4.2 — ____ ._______ L?_L l»n___ . & sion it is founded. reasons, which Patton VuUy sets forth in clear, oomprebensiblo terms, water. .Two aud a < half myo«,—s|y Sfr feea convey from away the grade- can a*. ¿.4 *** —* « A — — —• —. — * —2 jfe A . • | understood, made it very inconvenient for , Acting in pursuance of this theory miles from Portland I found a slough tbe true theory of the government, as under bich will.be bridged.'j There is here, of wl me to leave town on that day. I finally | couree stood and believed by the entire Democrat attempted to institute new government^ < Beyond «.u«» that that I could not get through without course a gap in the graft ing,. ucjuuu •1 ! • . a * _ ' ' T W Í agreed to go, mainly upon his persuasion.} about tbreefourths of a<mile is the deep going into water. I do not know how ic party and tbe great body cf tbe American those people, laying their foundations deep it was, I pulled off my boots and He (Patton) stood at Hirsch’s corner est whol| — 75 canyon of the whole route feet people. We know not who penned it ; but such principles and in such manner, from the grade, to *the culvert. On i' the tried to wade it, but as it came over my' when the party (which included Messrs. Elliott, Flint, Parrish, Loryea, Hendprspu. whoever be may be, he deserves a high en them seem most likely to perpetuate canyon", a gang of men knees I abandoned the idea. 11 cannot city side of this cany carriage.| He conium for tbe chasteness of bis language party in power, and finally oonvert this ¡re are at work; in a cut of two or three hun- say how wide this place is, but of the and myself) got into the carriage. it, is probably one saw and recognized me among thj num ftraiyards in length, ahd much of the lay of country around art and tbe perfect skill by which he embodied public into a centralized Despotism. Ifl ¡B ber; ; he knew that J 1 went, and he knew knew u____ of _ _ _ a mile 11 j or more, and will require ber way from 10 to 16 feet in depth-. This is quarter in dull words, tbe vital, living, moving prin I n 1 for what purport 1 Went. I am not mistaken. being their mammoth design, tbe intr about threefourths done. On the other “trestle work” to cross it. Again there ciples that prompt tbe united acts of the in my man. J. W. P. H untington a side of the canyon, is &e deepest ___ ______ w ; cut ef is about 150 yards of “trestle work” nec tion of the negro element — an ¿y ocfli of 1 S alem , July 17th, 18S8, I great band of patriots—the Democratic ; the first mile es8ary above above! Milwaukie ■ the Whole route—öö 66 feet, feist, measuring from essary f ’* '1' V-' r- wEI ’ ' I k '1 -i party, in their opposition to tbe mad mis Congress into the machinery of foe the upper hill line of the grade. F I orto and a half does not amount too much, M eeting of I C ommon CouNciL.&Last about the same as below. There is one Monday evening j the Common Council rule that is sapping tbe vitality of the Coun is a vital point, for the rads think they j| natcly, however, the ridge to 1 be ., cut •bout i^Bi « through is aj ^4 " i sbsrÿ, nari towone and con- place left for “trestle work” ' about thirty had a special session, pursuant to try ; and in their devotional attachment to control them. ’Hie ground I to be remov- yards long; between Milwaukie and journmeat, Mayor Underwood in tains ño no rock. TH tbe Constitution and its proper administra But the Democracy, is moving on Io -9. ed* a heavy clay f., Its nature • where graders ar,e at work is embank chair, na r is suoh chrnr. j tion. in solid phalanx, under a noble leader, in ments from one half foot and not to ex Present-Messn. Day, Kinsey, Hendricks^ that in the process ot damping and rolling " i ; I ' «¿1 * » I , - ' ’ ‘ ' ¡Twi#.' Li Co old ¿it be possible for more of truth to God willing the national emblem of fro ceed three feet in any place. Very little down tbe embankment* it packs almost and IM èr J & f T o 1 IW 1 cutting og 1 ¡8 b rquired ; there are four font places as hard as if originally Was in the moun A petition with ordinance, was presens be expressed in fewer words, than the fol •nd unity will again float over yonder for short bridges about twelve to ted, asking right of way’ through •> any and it will therefore make a left »for tain side, tp< low mg extract. itol, and a national Congress, composed of first rate fow foundation. The bottom of the thirty feet long. Chinamen do all the street or alley, for the East Side Railroad' “And that we regard the Reconstruction and at theL top grading now, there were forty-three at Company, which was amended bo as to Acts (so called) of Congress, as usurpation members of all the states, will assemble • be -i cut is fourteen feet e slope of each work yesteiday. There are from nine exclude Willamette, i Eighth and Ninth and unconstitutional, revolutionary and neath its ample folds to deliberate on tbe it will be near 100 nd a naBtl This teen to twenty white men ahead of grad streets. The ordnance ordnanoe after ___ _____ discussion,, bank being as one I void.” ’ < • interests of a mighty continent. wbtM officer cutis now about half finished and’ with ers chopping and grubbing grubbing : a white man was defeated by the following foUoting vote : Tbe Constitution of the United States, is foreman over the Chinamen who is an •nd citizen alike hold themselves- Yeas— Hendricks and Dunn» Dunn- 2 * •nd the. force now employed will be finished adopted by tbe peop le of the several States, old of mine, miue, and he says he has not been in about a month. [• ■ Only about twenty Nays—Kinsey, Day and UnderwoCd-3. several ly, is the bond that holds the several amenable to law. paid since he commenced work about the men, with eight carts, dan be employed at — State J oumal. Stale 1 Il L 1st of^fay ; ¡he says they will probably of May; he States into one government, and of course thia cut for the reason |bat that the earth is ■ —-—--- - - Ï- 4 ' The Oregon Jr all wanted in the canyon in .before mention pay off tbe hands to-day or to-morrow or » before anything that would sever the bond of uni iíá ¡ hands all quit last week, ed, and the tbe work is therefore prosecuted next day ; the bands G reat B ritan wanted the colonto ty (tbe Constitution) is manifestly contrary Iu this weeks ptpet will be and uWBi but under promises of better treatment put crown stamps on tbe paper tho peo- - only from the northern end. , I, Beyond to the Constitution. Tbe Constitution is Ad. from this company. That our readers this point, other gangs of men are at work and pay resumed work again this week, pie used. But they ' <(Mrid’t. ' They declared to be the supreme law of tbe land, may judge of the status'of railroad affairs at various points. Rock has been encoun ‘ They are only about half a mile south fought George the Third seven, y^ara, . and that anything that conflicts therewith olldwo plaoes. The of where they were at my last visit It aboutit. Siu ce then, however, the friend? we «lip a number of utioles from« «Ur tered at only one otpt1 next deepest out is just -beyrtnd, and is seems they do not get on very fast, con » of tbe cause of George the Third have .«• r is null and void, and judges in every State cotemporaries, to show in what estimate tJMS ■ feet deep. tAt thia point, also, sidering the small amount of work to do; twenty m two are bound thereby, anything in the laws of not only required stamps to be put npon - ------- the railroad queseioii is held elsewhere. the cut is a short one ffZx and the earth is they simply throw up the dirt from eaoh every thing else which the farmer ‘ and any State to the contrary, notwithstanding. side, just as it happens to require it, re Our readers will see by these extracts easily removed. There are beyond those poor man needs, and bavé established a Then it follows that the secession ordinan gardless of ditches or symmetry. mentioned two er three cuts of less depth gardleas militray Dictator and an African army to poorl repute and several canyons pf leas i_ ces or other assumptions or acts of any man that the china concern ia in pc formidable They are yet, by the survey, four miles — stamp tbe life oat of the people ! or body of men which in any manner at in Oregen. Read these carefully, 1 and depth and breadth to lie filled or bridged. F from the Clackamas river, on a atright a‘ work tine; fron Milwaukie, they are about * Picayude Yankees.—and niggers aro tempted to annul, repeal, set aside,—throw then take under adtisement whether we The forward gang of gfadera are at on S light cut about 2 three-fburtl 'norths of a three miles. , , VU « IlgU. VUV UWW« driving the poor white mao before them off the paramount authority of tbe Consti oan offord to injure the pi !------------- ----- k B ° 8 *de of .the summit, ■. AU the This East Ssde Company has now ____ T ‘ out of the Athotie and Middle State* tution, sofas as they or any other persons great an enterprise as a Railroad Hhrough wheel barrow work bqtv Rai1 iqtween 1 this point actually graded about seven miles of their into the unexplored West to again hew a. were concerned,were null and void ai unite, the valley and Southern Oregon,!’ by sup- and the place of bcghfolt Ing, has already road ; but it is not well done, and is very path foi the Puritan trader and his nig* and io legal effect were but a ^Pope’s Bull porting the china concern, which we must bc(?I doDfl,} s J3, of course, consid- crooked., —— ——*• ’ IJ -4 ger partner. This is the poor man’ll re I------ it done. Between The grading does not compare favor- ward for being ^loil” to wealthy New against tbe oommet.” . r ® ’ 1 x f I? • «fable carting to be yet Wi say, appear only able to complete their the place where the folk •rd gang of gn- ably with that of other roads whioh we England highwaymen, who are absorb All those acta, of whatever name or na the summit, the considered well done.—Afoenrng Com- ing the smaller estates and* grasping a ture, being,noil and void,—as though they line, provided they can steal the name’aqd ders are at work and J tl \v„.V ~i.-i : , ri HrikiaK landed lan/larl power vnaffiF 1 ' mad« is thirteen feet, mercial. deepest cut to be ) franchises of thii company. • British tljj I . • ] ■ • ' ' ' i had never been passed, — while an armed I - I- 1 14 irurk'jwill be quite light, The most of the work :.z;Is it not significenikhai j »er maay ’ ..The war has W been— ov< ■ ■ ' L - 1 '■ mob held tbe ccntroll of tbe State, tbe Tbe amount of work, e, considering the inwnent defies the not a Southern on the ooi mense. Com- R ailroad B ridges —Yesterday the authority of the Constitution ; famine is Constitution and laws made in pursnance contributed liberally to this line, but not force employed, 1 the ¡grading we Board of Directors of the Oregon Central . thereof, by legally constituted bodies prior a cent to the chioa concern T threatening its millions in all quarter*— ]jt not. paring the work with seems Bins well done, Railroad let to B. F. Starr & Co. the con why are tbe people still borne down wtth have ever seen, it j| and up to the «»sumption ef government by further significant, when City Wherever the track has been graded to tract for building one of the bridges across tbe unsatisfied gluttony of New* England, j .- the mob, remained unrepea'ed during the refuses to be humbugged into even grant permanent level, A U ditch has been dug the ravine on that part of the road al wbjob, vampyreiike, sits and feeds upon 1, X conflict of arms, for there was no legal su- ing the right of Way through thati'Ecity ? on each each side side to to carry carry dn watei, and the ready graded. The bridge will be about the heart’s blood of thé toilers of tbw JM so a| to obviate danger one hundred and fifty fret long, and otter ibority to repeal them ; «U tbe persons ex- banks are •loped r’“_J------ West F If a bogus coeeern will to bum The trestle- F of caving, The total »force employed on a gulch thirty feet deJp< ei owing, lhe functions of offices holding the bug a people by trying tn bay up rnen of the road averages i about one hundred nd red map, men, work will be ten feet wide at the top, and KNoVvs Norwrwé^ MA k * -M—Gteneral tenure of their offices under, and by virtue w al and oart aa equiva- much wider at the bottom. This bridge Grant, in a letter to Col. Morris, of Illinois purity of character, | iby offering them counting each horse < f tl e secession ordinances—nullities became pa' rolls Is show is to be across the first guleh this aide of saya ha knows nothing about politicised lent to one man, though the pay .nd about one hundred and seventeen conti ary to the Constitution, and therefore largely of their; tum5eMaWo i snteen. Owing < the Terwilliger line. The work will be couldn’t write a political letter if be wa> to* resort to other equally dis mountain i ’ aide, deriving their authority from a nullity their commenced on next .Monday, and be m wy. That’» a candid-coofession but. not » to the conformation of the tn ,ed though hat crooked t finished in about thirty daya.-Coawuerciai 1 very eeaeeling om for Ms supported»* | J . the track will be so» “ 1 “ 4 " to supply them act* were equally null and void. . . I 4 ■ I '■ •V 'l'é" ■____ -ll"-______ II 1 4'' r l € _ - . _ - - — - ; .! — h í * a aa a —~ mb